the news that dominated the week a once in a century meteo hit exploding with a false of more than twenty years shame a bombs in the skies over central russia leaving almost two hundred people injured. fresh violent clashes overshadow attempts talks in bahrain as police fired tear gas at hundreds of stone throwing activists ordering the two year anniversary of the start of anti-government demonstrations. red rag to the face of the global community north korea sparks outrage by carrying out a third nuclear test despite a u.n.

ban and international sanctions. u.s. backed disarray in arab spring countries and nato to do this in afghanistan r.t. takes a look at the global issues president obama wasn't keen to talk about during his much anticipated state of the union address. and news the pope has to be the first head of the catholic church to step down in six centuries because shock across the world the pontiff says his health no longer permits him to fulfill his duties. but are you watching r t s a weekly news review with me carrie johnston well it was the meteor that became a huge media star and one of vent that dominated the headlines at the end of this

week yes shooting in flashing across the skies of central russia it's one of the few times a meteor or such size have been filmed coming to work residence shot footage from every angle possible as it fell in the year olds on the guest from space stole the spotlight from an even bigger asteroid that made a record close approach to the on friday. has been tracking this shooting star. it was like a scene from a movie but with one exception it was real first the brilliant flash was big bright like he was shining across the sky you know blinding brighter than the sun the skies were lit up by a meteor streaking across the skies above the russians. over want to have thousand kilometers east of moscow where not just twenty years ago glare on the floor i

thought of all lights from a car then we ran to the window saw this strange cloud and then. and then this. world would turn around and the wall was gone like someone had moved it this use of massive explosions rocked the entire city damaging buildings and shattering windows . nasa said the explosive force of the media or breaking up was the equivalent of twenty here oshima bombs over twelve hundred people were injured including over two hundred children mostly from pieces of shattered glass. the windows just exploded i saw one girl he had and a bring his hand were told to quickly put all clothes on and ran outside and many were able to film the owner of the phenomenon later flooding the web with footage

as rumors spread of what it might have been a stricken airplane a satellite that fell out of orbit even the beginning of the and of the world would mrs reported seeing fragments of the crashing all across the region. and so small can there was a weird smell but it was not a fire so i think it's a piece of meteorite and it's small during there no however most of the sighting started out to be ordinary peed bug fires because so far officials have not found any fragments of the meteor for now the immediate priority. he's to look after the injured and repair the damage to buildings especially the broken windows in schools and residential areas as temperatures at night drop below minus fifteen celsius it's going to take time to clear everything out but for now science like this collapsed factory or a clear reminder no matter how advanced technology gets nowadays often when it comes to nature we can only watch helplessly and hope for the best.

indeed while the earth witnessed a once in a lifetime event with one of the biggest meteors to hit the planet in a century basically this is what happened as it approached our planet ten thousand ton fireball enter the atmosphere at the speed of twenty kilometers per second before igniting and finally breaking apart well such objects entering the atmosphere are relatively common but you should they don't make it to the surface instead burning up in the atmosphere but this was visible from at least four russian regions but its main appearance was around the industrial city of cho yeah on this map a you can see the areas that suffered the most from the for all city of the five hundred killer town explosion and that's equivalent to more than twenty nuclear bombs. well for more on this. paul scott is with us her now in this to you tell us a little bit more about this a bit of a media frenzy hasn't it very much so it's a story isn't it carrie that pretty much had had everything the dramatic pictures

that we've seeing the rarity value once in every one hundred years this sort of story happens human interest of course a fairytale love lives and news across the world and rightly so for those reasons the dramatic pictures and just the simple rarity of it once every one hundred years and dramatic headlines to go with it what makes a spacewalk a killer who knows. i think is the pictures the pictures that make it it's like a science fiction films like something from hollywood i know you're a big fan of science and i started to realize well there's also been of course an internet boom because of this as you'd expect with this kind of kind of story can see what kind of stuff has been coming up on the internet with the still the headline something a little too much time on their hands angry by the why they're angry about it bruce willis stop calling me what seeding i know of course the film armageddon. you know is not about me and someone kicking it out of the sky i tell you what can we say well here is a man who likes those we know that the president is extraordinary isn't it and of

course all of these pictures and all of these jokes would have gone viral they would have gone around the globe instantly because of twitter which has really changed the face of news in some respects for stories like this because it's a it's a mildly rip remote part of russia well here and you certainly i witness accounts can go up almost spontaneously as the news is developing and you can see here by some of the tweets that people in chelyabinsk despite what was happening in the dramatic nature of what was happening there was still keeping their pecker up and they actually. have time for a few jokes as well as well as well as these these jokes i understand that some people are making some money out of this or trying to trying to say that they're selling pieces of space rock who knows if it really is spacewalker disappear from the bottom they gardens i mean. three months of mantra on a promise is to start for valentine's day of course just twelve hours after valentine's day man's it has its own twitter feed its own twitter feed goodness me what's it saying i don't know i'm not hollowing it happen to me to have its own

twitter feed but it does and what else do we have here is you how as i say news is changed there you go something that let me write a story of your story for falling injuring so many people but of course eventually there injuring people there is a slightly more indeed more serious scientists it's good sometimes there were no fatalities so we can have a sort of a bit of a play around with it but chelyabinsk is a region with nuclear facilities right if you kill a facility the dozen or so so there was a real danger i suppose the sonic boom caused by this meteor or entering the earth's atmosphere could cause danger to those nuclear facilities and lead to some sort of nuclear fallout we saw it in our consumer of course a right in japan so the sonic boom that caused windows to be smashed and things like that and that is where the injuries came from results yet that's exactly the there's no evidence as of yet that the meteorite actually collided with what it is you want to me to you'll let me explain the difference and. i'm going to try that i

hope it works on a meteor enters the earth's atmosphere it is known as a meteor right and burns up and breaks up into smaller fragments and usually just burns out into nothing if anything collides with any of those fragments they're known as meteorites and that's what makes contact or collide with but there's no evidence as of yet there was any any collision with earth there is a lake there's a bunker but they haven't found any evidence as of yet they say colliding with of course this isn't the first time this has happened when these things happen all the all the time but big ones we understand at least four times in russia russia seems have its fair share of these things for some reason we don't know as country and this is some very old footage we have here of something that happened back in the. region that's in siberia as well i understand there with the figures say this is nine hundred. eighteen in siberia and apparently something like a little bit about two thousand square kilometers of forest so quite a meteorite quite a smash especially for that time who knows what people would have would have made

of that. another two decades later after that event in the third one i should mention that the second one was in southern russia and that three hundred kilogram piece was found just to put the friday's meteor right or meteor into into context this when this happened in one thousand nine hundred eight it took researchers and scientists a decade to go to the site because it was so remote to go back enormity and investigate the site so we're talking about people divers already searching the bottom of the lake where they think friday's may have landed instantly again whereas this took ten years later to get to the site but scientists are very excited about the possibility of finding fragments of friday's meter right because it might provide some answers to what else is out there indeed it might and in fact we understand we have an expert who can tell us a little bit about this astrophysicist by name of pierce corbin have a look at this and see what he says question for the future must be could they be

predicted. i would think with more satellite and space research you could get some sort of overall coming aboard and i can see the two most who not thing is there's a lot lot of skill out there and the speed of this thing was it was goes. one and a half times around the world in an hour that's the speed it will go about it is going to strike large so it's really fast you say are many even if it's some way away obviously very slowly in the sky then but the question is when a long way away they look very small but i mean that's an issue maybe there should be an international effort to exactly scan the scars to prepare for things like this. well there we have it with anything of that size happen here again who now is well i guess they were sort of echoing calls that have already come from russia for for a global defense system again something like this get china the usa russia all working together don't waste time on our missile defense system exactly when we can all

have to unite and says ok i'm going on the rest i would say or impulse scott thanks very much for that thank you. moving on now to more news of the week. in bahrain there have been fresh clashes as police used tear gas against hundreds of protesters on stones and firebombs it comes from the funeral of a teenager who was allegedly shot by forty's earlier this week during a rally marking. unrest in the country modern says marred week old talks between the most the opposition and the sunni dominated government shiite saddam arming an end to the ruling family and school domination a london based activist still making sense there are few signs the country's

leaders genuinely want reform. we're looking at two years in which we've seen in no reform we've seen nothing change i mean we started this uprising two years ago and on that day the first martyr of the uprising was killed and now two years later on the same day. another teenager has been killed and this shows and displayed. continuous human rights abuses the continuous repression taking place on the streets of bahrain it's good that dialogue has come back on the agenda and there is discussions happening but it seems that you know this latest latest escalation of the security against the people is going to possibly put in jeopardy within the ruling family i think of course there are those who simply want to please the international community to say look we're having this dialogue and there is not a great thing what's continuing the violations on the street. back with more news

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today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. operation. welcome back north korea is reportedly preparing for more atomic tests this despite deep international anger after it detonated a third nuclear device on tuesday. to shore up its national security and safeguard its sovereignty. called outrageous u.s. . ready laboring on day. to be banned from any such as it is by the u.n. the country had previously carried out two nuclear tests in. other nuclear warheads the u.n. security council unanimously condemned north korea's actions and pledged to beef up

sanctions against it. but the timing of the test raises many questions. really i think going to fall into a lot of diplomatic pressure on china to use its leverage with north korea in this and i imagine that officials in beijing must have known that this this was coming probably in the next few days and it certainly is it couldn't have happened at a worse time internationally speaking it's the lunar new year in china so basically the entire country is on holiday and in the u.s. there is no confirmed secretary of defense or central intelligence director so it's a very interesting time throw that throw into that the wild card of xi jinping we don't know much about him or how he's going to lead china and the fact that kim jong un is a relatively new leader as well you also have the new army government in japan and there's a lot of wildcards in this mix to see how this is going to shake out but i think on the question of china specifically if they have a lot of pressure that they can put on north korea. pope benedict the sixteenth

announced his resignation and a shock move at the start of the week says ill health forced him to make the decision becoming the first pope to resign in six hundred years his papacy has been plagued by scandal most notably accusations of a broad cover up of child abuse within the catholic church and the abuse campaigner barbara dorris says the pope didn't do enough to address paedophilia during his eight years in the position. we believe that he uttered words he showed there was filth in the priesthood he apologized to the victims but he took no action he didn't discipline a single church official for hiding enabling shielding to predators for you know moving them from country to country from dies used to dies so until he does that nothing has changed and we believe the words were just empty empty promises we have a bishop in the united states that was convicted of child endangerment and is still

being allowed to run a diocese the message is clear if you follow the company line if you keep this secret if you put the reputation of the church of of this a city of the children then you will be promoted what a terrible message to send many people no longer trust church officials like they did in the past and that's a very sad statement that you can't trust your bishops. well this week a new force about the latest wave of unrest in egypt the so-called black bloc targets young people to join courage in the use of violence to bring down the government after the two year anniversary of the toppling of hosni mubarak the group set up a facebook page giving advice on street fighting members of the group say it was started as a response to their peaceful demands were ignored just like this one here says such violent actions open the way from military occupation of the country. the true anger behind it it's the frustration from the lack of social justice egyptians by

nature not violent and these are tactics being employed so that egyptians grow desperate all the time with all the crises economic crises and all sorts of protests all around the country so that egypt should have collectively people start thinking that the muslim brotherhood is doing a lousy job which more or less they are doing a lousy job however it's to push people to beg the military council for a cool so that they can kick out the muslim brotherhood to justify the military overtake of of the government. one line today of football a volcano love has come clean on why he wasn't always at his best on the brazilian they spent seven years with him in moscow as much time between the sheets was to blame for his performance on the field details online dot com.

to build a replica of the titanic and safely recreate the transatlantic voyage in school to stir some people offering up more than a million dollars for a ticket how the shipbuilders to avoid the ranks of its. when i was. in the most important speech in the american political calendar president obama looked at the americas an electorate on side in the first state of the union address since his reelection he talked about the fate of arab spring countries and expanded plans to bring home troops from afghanistan he's going to church or karen has been listening to what the president had to say. in his state of the union speech president obama outlined some of the external threats that the country is facing first of all paris spreading to different parts of the world for what he said although the u.s. is pulling troops out of afghanistan america's war on terror will continue to listen it's true different al qaeda affiliates of extremist groups have emerged from the peninsula to africa the threat these groups pose is of all.

but to meet this threat we don't need to send tens of thousands of our sons and daughters abroad occupying other nations we will continue to take direct action against those terrorists who pose the greatest threat to america although there was no mentioning of the word drone everyone knew that's what the president meant when saying direct with no us troops involved what he did not talk about was the limits for this war they did ministration his waging with a remote control justification that. john brennan's words. don't punish people for past guilt strike before they take action that offers a very broad scope for the use of drones to afghanistan president obama wants to leave some troops on the ground twenty fourteen when they're supposed to be all out in the speech you mentioned ongoing negotiations with the afghan government on that issue and it's going to be a hard bargain because the afghan government wrists further spearing anger of their

own population over foreign military presence one could sense a change maybe even your concern as the president on the results of the revolution in the arab world he said it's quote unquote messy he said the u.s. cannot dictate the course of changing countries like very very briefly pressure on syria there was a change of. remember how the u.s. was cheerleading for revolutions in those countries just a year ago with radical forces gaining momentum in places like syria like libya maybe the changes that we've now in the region are not much to their liking among other threats america faces the president talked about cyber attacks he said he had issued an executive order to protect government agencies and key infrastructure from cyber attacks but he did not mention is how the u.s. government itself is carrying out cyber attacks like the reported cyber attack on iran's nuclear program while there's no proof that they're building in this

administration said it would view a serious cyber attack. against the united states is an act of war but apparently when the u.s. carries out the attack it should not be seen as an act of war. and talking more about american issues and concerns over to foster in his own musical matter targets one of the most painful problems for the us gun policy that's in juice nice coming up. united states is based on. you know i care rest that you'll never have the fall still play local news is welcome to the show today come on out to sing we've just got a studio upgrade like i'm on the system is devoted to the debate which is busy

devoted to the united states has to work for the big mass shootings from the repeated to sandy hook student wants someone to kill them and to stop the bloodshed on this one to prevent coming is there an answer to the same plastic we consult expert kits from opposing factions the military soon see is a representative of the black splotches you know why the senate beyond judgments reach peace compassion in abundance the illegality retarded see some anonymous i agree but why ban guns what's your lunch random you kidding the second amendment is a sacred law but on the gun bans are evil people are insisting suggested john crimes umask only happen when people don't have access to semiautomatic weapons and we were given this trash right to bear arms not for hunting bears but to protect just you don't farm for leaks of americans who are defending the land from the colonists no property from our own free government mistakes the winter when it comes to pay to try to take power they take the people look at hitler stalin told

parchments listen chavez george the third in fact is that a brit accepts the seventy seventy six lumps of tons of fuel and tell him what comes try to tell god is ok let's hear from the general but it's the first time we've had you both in the studio together frankly i'm shocked by what business about people american lives is a tragedy to live in doesn't come urgency can it be truly we need to stop this insanity do you suggest to start the citizenry leave guns to the criminal smugglers of the military british news that you. we need a war on drugs and work like our war on drugs wasn't enough money for my children and so far general please i understand the perspective of the second amendment to you but can you predict events like the over the top. when temperance shooting to the same shooting goal calls you been taking your meds the feds will go away to warn you david koresh of the school shooting that incident in connecticut was

a deliberate orchestrated spike set up with aim to take our weapons and make us the best some better reason plus a couple times they can find. someplace sane or waiting to take the united states and they get a treat to take their ship in this case are the only one standing in the way of it if the slaves want guns let them be our supremacy doesn't depend on weaponry which still has media money in it we control every aspect of your life why the logical examination if you think you can just stomp your feet then what you're waiting for her to strip you of your liberty for the simple might seem to be if you once are bold. globalists.

well i guess that sums it up and brings us to point to the end of our report on guns in the divided stakes of america certainly it's not up place to pass judgment but listen with a question and a last comment if your passion for the second amendment were missed by down the budget and then independent onus media. the free internet the president today wouldn't it be always be a bit and tell the tale if it's in the beach in a big number it's the tip and it begins somewhat follows that the first and best line of defense license being seventy off with guns with the troops stay safe everyone.

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